Annexation And Narciso LpezLetterbook

Annexation and Narciso Lòpez–Letterbook

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“A work of art must narrate something that does not appear within its outline. The objects and figures represented in it must likewise poetically tell you of something that is far away from them and also of what their shapes materially hide from us.”

— Giorgio de Chririco

Capucine

“[…] the idea of perfection which art pursues, the wisdom accumulated in writing, the dream of satisfying every desire that is expressed in the luxury of ornaments, all these point towards one single meaning, celebrate one foundational principle, entail one single final object. And this is an object which does not exist. Its sole quality is that of not being there. One cannot even give it a name.”

— Italo Calvino, tr. Martin McLaughlin, from “The Mihrab,” Collection of Sand (Mariner Books, 2013; orig. pub. in Italian, 1984)

“And everything stayed unsaid.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. by Eavan Boland, from “Departure from England,”

Anouk Aimée in 1961.